OSHAWA & the War of 1812
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16th Summer Camp
Toronto, 12-17 August, 2012 - Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
Register by June 11
FALL COURSES
are finished...
Check here later for course news.
An Act to Protect Ontario's Inactive Cemeteries
Join the campaign: - petition - MPPs
If you are a member of ANY branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, extra features are available online:- e.g.; back issues of eNewsleaf/Families, Pedigree Charts, OGS Database, online purchases (including memberships), our funeral cards.
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The Durham Members Only Area
Members Only: Here you can sign in with your email address and password. Links are also provided for recovering lost passwords as well as for creating your log-in for the first time, either by joining OGS or (for current members) by sending your email address to the OGS Membership Coordinator.
The Durham Region Branch, O.G.S. holds meetings at 7:30p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month, in the Oshawa Library basement auditorium, 65 Bagot Street, just south of City Hall. Google Map Location
No meetings are held in July and August.
Visitors are always welcome. Come and bring a friend.
(Free Admission!)
Our historical and genealogical records are stored in our main Durham Region Branch Office.
April 25th
Kawartha Branch
Archives Bus Trip
Pick-ups include
Oshawa
For King and Country
A project to transcribe the war memorials in Toronto schools by the Toronto Branch of the OGS
30th Anniversary Celebration: Nancy Trimble: "Look to the Future - Social Networking" - Janis Carter, on the history of our branch - with slide-show and all important CAKE!!
Bring along your family trees, for you may find unexpected ancestor connections to others while at this meeting/celebration.
Our usual general meeting location is the Main Branch of the Oshawa Library (basement auditorium).
Rick Roberts : (Global Genealogy) - Family Tree Maker from Beginner to Trickster - (materials availablefor sale)
Benefit from dozens of hints and tips that will help you improve your results using Family Tree Maker 2012 (FTM) Rick provides an overview of FTM to demonstrate the software's design and abilities for recording and sharing information both on paper and digitally. His talk will Include an introduction to new features in FTM 2012, including TreeSync™ which allows you to easily update your tree online from your desktop, your laptop, even your iPhone or iPad -- and then simply click to sync so your tree is always up to date, no matter where you access it next.
Bessie Gannon, a founder and longtime valued member of the branch, died on Friday, April 13, 2012, at 91.
Visitation is 2-4 and 7-9 on Tuesday - funeral 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Oshawa Funeral Home.
Gallery of Branch Photos. The following video files are large, requiring a waiting period for the complete download.
1998 Interview Excerpts [Windows 19MB - wmv | Mac 17MB - mov]
2011 Christmas Show and Tell [Windows 22MB- wmv | Mac 21MB - mov]
Note: The .wmv files are sharper than the .mov files.
Paul Arculus: Discovering History Through Gravestones
Paul Arculus has (for his historical writings and for his teaching career) won the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Lifetime Achievement. Although the topics for his historical writings range from local crimes, homes and estates, commerce and merchants, and steamboats on Lake Scugog, his most recent book recounts the life of a Port Perry man whose hand in the creation of General Motors is little known. Paul's interest in Dr. Campbell was spurred by a stone in the nearby graveyard. His book is titled, "Durant's Right-Hand Man" (another colourful Canadian story).
Ruth Burkholder - Early "Real Estate Agents" in Upper Canada: - a talk about companies formed to promote group emigration, provide income for institutions or just to make money. Covers Kings’ College, Canada Company, Peter Robinson settlers, and other related schemes.
[A new resource - Release of the Canadian Emigration: Parliamentary Papers 1826.]
Wayne O'Connor (Eoghan O'Conchobhair) - Irish Genealogy (mostly Southern Ireland)
Wayne (a previous Durham Branch newsletter editor), has investigated many resources while researching his own family. During the presentation he re-visited websites he found useful, demonstrating their strengths and weaknesses. Wayne signs his e-mails with "Slan go foill". Resources and links with be posted on the Blog.
Breaking Down Brick Walls - with our local expert moderators
Searching for family history becomes frustrating if you can't locate an essential record, or the records may be from another country (in another language), or a person's maiden name may elude you. Our moderators (and the audience at large) provided advice, related personal anecdotes, and pointed attendees in the right direction to resolve such dilemmas.
Celebrating the Holiday Season and Genealogy!
Show & Tell / Bring & Brag
- Bessie Gannon (shown here) was amongst a long list of presenters who related personal family and genealogy stories.
• The THREE Spring Workshops were quite successful. We plan to offer them again next Spring (with an additional fourth course).
• Stephen Wood will staff the Branch Office twice per month. Please see the Our Office page for times and dates. Our brochure (pdf - 1.13MB), is an introduction to the Durham Region Branch of the OGS.
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The above link leads to a compilation of monthly meetings of the Duraham Region Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society for the years 2008 and 2009. Scroll below for a summary of our 2010 meetings.
